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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

When making a budget, you have to always assume the worst case scenario. Plus, Brandon is in his 60's, an age where most people want to quit working. Heck, even if I'm in my dream job, I'm retiring the moment I can afford it.

His primary recruiting bases are the states of Mississippi and Alabama. Those two states have the worst k-12 public school education systems. Obviously, it shouldn't justify allowing a kid with a 2.2 gpa to attend a somewhat strong academic university, but I'm just providing insight on where Mullen is coming from.

If there is anyone that would resign or lockup a player longterm, it's Dombrowski. Cabrera, Verlander, Martinez, and Sanchez have all resigned lengthy deals with the Tigers. The only players he hasn't been able to willingly hold onto have been Max, who he did offer a seven year deal to prior to his last season.

It's basically the coaches telling the kid that they like the player and think they are good enough to make an impact on the team. However, they want to see how numbers and other recruiting battles shake out before they take the commitment.

It's basically the coaches telling the kid that they like the player and think they are good enough to make an impact on the team. However, they want to see how numbers and other recruiting battles shake out before they take the commitment.

The Phillies GM has been one of the worst GM's in baseball history. The Tigers still have some young talent as well, such as Iglesias, J.D. Martinez, Mccann, Gose, and possibly Castelleanos. A healthy Cabrera will always be good. Players that have his eyesight, baseball IQ, technique, work ethic, and apparent love for the game can last for a while.

Suarez was never going to play over a healthy Iglesias. Also, despite how bad Simon has been lately, Porcello has been just as bad this entire season, except Dave avoided paying him $20 million a year. Who knows, that may have been the best pitcher available for those two pieces.

For one bad trade? A trade that involved giving up a guy whom we gave up nothing for originally at an overly stacked position at the time. Guess what, sometimes prospects don't pan out (although I will say Ray hasn't been pitching terribly in Arizona last time I checked).

I'm also confused into why in other posts your critical of Dave for not having a strong farm system, yet when he makes an attempt to srengthen it, you get angry at him. (Before you respond back with, "well he failed to build the farm system in that trade" I would just like to point out that again, all the young talent that Dave has traded for over the years that did pan out).

So you would rather have a strong farm system rather than take a shot at the World Series? When you get to the postseason, anything can happen, and the team that catches the most breaks wins. That's why more often than not, the best team doesn't always win (last year's series featured two wild card teams). Unfortunately enough luck for us never happened. Still, it's not like we flamed out in the playoffs until last year.

Even then, Dave still has some young talent to build around, for example Iglesias, McCann, J.D. Martinez, Gose, Castelleanos (still very raw and young for 3B).

So you can keep your unproven prospects, and I'll take guys like Cabrera, Iglesias, Anibal, and a few years of Max, Fister, and Price. Easy decision.

Every other trade deal trader Dave has made has turned out pretty good. OK yea, the Fister deal backfired, and maybe the Rentaria deal a few years back, but may I point out to you that his deals brought in the greatest hitter of our generation, Max, Price, Iglesias, Peralta, Anibal, Cespedes, oh and Fister to begin with for a grand total of Andrew Miller, Avisail Garcia, and Austin Jackson (who he also traded for). Yea he made a bad deal, but what GM hasn't?

Every other trade deal trader Dave has made has turned out pretty good. OK yea, the Fister deal backfired, and maybe the Rentaria deal a few years back, but may I point out to you that his deals brought in the greatest hitter of our generation, Max, Price, Iglesias, Peralta, Anibal, Cespedes, oh and Fister to begin with for a grand total of Andrew Miller, Avisail Garcia, and Austin Jackson (who he also traded for). Yea he made a bad deal, but what GM hasn't?

Fantastic even, and certainly gives you a leg up on the competition. Most of the time, the degree doesn't automatically give you the job. What gets you hired are the experiences you have in college (internships for example) and the connections you make. I don't want to sound high and mighty, but personally I'm in a very competitive field where people with masters degrees are having a hard time finding a job. I got both my previous and current job partially based on connections that I made while attending a D2 school.

Harbaugh was trying to get Pipkins to take a medical hardship because there is no point in having him risking his body any further as Harbaugh knows that no NFL team is going to give a legit shot to a guy whose had ACL surgery, arthritis in knees, neck problems, and two concussions (all of which Pipkins has had). By Pipkins taking a medical hardship, Pipkins can spend his last year at Michigan with the team, and graduate with a Michigan degree. Those other guys you mentioned,Jenkins-Stone and Norfleet, haven't had anywhere close to the injury history that Pipkins has. Harbaugh was basically trying to keep Pipkins from hurting himself, while still assuring that he was a part of the team and staying on course to get his UM degree.

I should also point out that letting Pipkins go doesn't add a new scholarship, unless we get a transfer who is going to play this upcoming season.

The Ohio State situation involved a true freshman who had a recoverable knee injury that required less than a year of healing. The Pipkins situation involves a senior who has had injury and concussion issues thoughout his career, virtually killing his NFL chances. Harbaugh gave him a chance to get his degree and stay a part of the team. Eliminating a senior's scholarship basically does nothing.

UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, not alien space craft. It can be as simple as seeing a plane flying that you don't recognize. Aliens, on the other hand, are simply not believable, especially if they are associated with UFOS. For one, a plethora of freak occurrences had to occur in the creation of Earth that allowed it to support life. This includes its size, distance from the sun, power of the sun, it's natural rotation, among many. If any of those factors are off, Earth would be inhabitale. (These precise factors have been cited by some as the best evidence for intelligent design, but please let's not go there). It is highly unlikely that these same freak occurrences happened in another part of space, despite its vast size. Even if they did, the intelligent life would have to bend the laws of physics to get here. The nearest galaxy is more than four lightyears away, meaning even if they somehow figured out how to travel the speed of light, they would have to maintain livable conditions at that speed for four years. It's just simply not likely they would visit Earth without being noticed.

I don't have the source as I'm at work, but something similar to this was caught in Texas 10-15 Years ago. Basically they think it was a decedent from the offspring of a coyote and or another dog/wolf.

About 99% of the time, I would say OSU, even more so if they are supposed to be a candidate for an undefeated season. However, OSU and a National Championship are the ultimate end games for Harbaugh, neither of which we are supposed to be anywhere close to. We aren't expected to beat them this year, and everyone knows that. MSU is more realistic, and one win would be enough to both shut up those in denial Sparty's, and restablish dominance in our own state. Plus MSU couldn't care if we go 11-1, if that one loss was to them, they wouldn't shut up for another year.